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iO9′s list of the “25 Scariest Science Experiments Ever Conducted” is certainly provocative. However, as some commenters point out, the juxtaposition of outright atrocities (sadistic and murderous Nazi experiments on human subjects), tragic errors (a recent leukemia-drug trial that killed those it was supposed to help), and worthy experiments that admittedly prompt episodes of the heebie-jeebies (a human finger grown from tissue scraped from a pig’s bladder!)—these juxtapositions have the cumulative effect of flattening some important moral distinctions.

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Gary Rosen is the editor of Review and the former managing editor of Commentary magazine. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He is the author of "American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding" and the editor of "The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq."